Hot on the heels of my post about pantoums, Peter recommends you listen to the second movement of Ravel’s Piano Trio in A Minor, titled “Pantoum.” As one set of program notes explains, “For years it was rather casually assumed that in adopting this title Ravel was merely indulging vague exotic inclinations. But nothing about Ravel’s composing was ever vague, and in 1975 the British scholar Brian Newbould proved that Ravel does in fact adhere closely to the structure outlined above and, what is more, observes a further requirement of the original form—that the poem (or movement) deal with two separate ideas pursued in parallel, in this case, the brittle opening theme on the piano and the subsequent smoother one on strings two octaves apart.” More here [PDF].